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Alcatel-Lucent this week joined an ongoing announcement party among major router vendors by unveiling significant upgrades to its edge lineup, highlighted by a new chip.

Patent reform legislation before the U.S. Congress would kill the value of patents and allow companies from other countries to steal U.S. intellectual property, a group of inventors said Thursday.

Hype is the coin of the realm in the technology business. If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don't -- and some fail spectacularly.

Ratcheting up its customization capabilities, Salesforce.com will use its inaugural Dreamforce User & Developer Conference this week to launch the Winter 04 release of its hosted CRM service.

Periodically, it's important to review and update the client-side technical requirements of your web site. Reviewing client-side technology requirements is necessary to ensure that you are taking advantage of current options, while minimizing the amount of effort needed to support dated technologies. Decisions regarding which technologies to support need to be made by considering both industry trends and the unique needs of your company and customers. Here are some statistics on the use of various technologies:

A new antispam service initially aimed at consumers launched Monday with two huge promises to users: a total end to annoying spam and no false positives to hang up wanted e-mail.

Microsoft has proven its ability to make serious mistakes (think Internet Explorer 1.0), learn from them, and then return with a vengeance. (OK, except maybe with WebTV.) So it goes with .Net. Warning: The following will make a lot more sense if you brush up on the concept of Web services first.

Three years of legal maneuvering, two attorneys general and one bruised computer industry later, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 19 states remain pitted against software behemoth Microsoft in a high-stakes antitrust battle.

Software giant Microsoft Corp. released earnings Thursday for the fiscal third quarter, beating Wall Street estimates by US$0.02. The company reported earnings of US$0.44 per share on revenue of $6.46 billion for the third quarter ended March 31.

In a bid to give its Internet auction site a boost, eBay Inc. last week unveiled a deal to adopt Microsoft Corp.'s Web technology and .Net development tools.

Steve Ballmer kicked off the Streaming Media West event here Tuesday, outlining Microsoft Corp.'s next generation of media software applications. Ballmer, Microsoft president and chief executive officer, touched on the important role he believes media will play in keeping the PC central to consumer and corporate computing.